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'Heavy debt': Elon Musk says Twitter cash flow negative after ad revenue declines (www.cnbc.com)

Musk said early Saturday that cash flow at Twitter remains negative because of a nearly 50% drop in advertising revenue coupled with "heavy debt."

Signal president Meredith Whittaker rejects ‘mass surveillance’ U.K. law (fortune.com)

Whittaker said Signal would not abide by the proposed law, and highlighted concerns about privacy and the need for tech leaders to take a stand against socially accepted surveillance.

UPS strike could be costliest in US in a century, study says (www.reuters.com)

A threatened U.S. strike at United Parcel Service could be "one of the costliest in at least a century," topping $7 billion for a 10-day work stoppage, a think tank specializing in the economic impact of labor actions said on Thursday.

If you want to save the existing reddit content for future off-reddit use, you should get involved with Archiveteam (kbin.social)

Archiveteam's Reddit project is working to save reddit content from the hungry maw of corporate destruction....

Evidence indicates the presence of organic molecules in multiple rock samples on Mars (www.nature.com)

Factorio upgraded with controller support - now in the stable release (www.gamingonlinux.com)

Factory building and automation sim Factorio has a fresh stable release out, continuing years of free upgrades and it now has gamepad controller support.

UK teachers want cash skills to replace religious studies lessons, study finds (uk.news.yahoo.com)

BRITAIN wants personal finance lessons to replace religious studies on the school curriculum, new national research reveals.

FBI Director Running Out of Adjectives for Nutty GOP Conspiracies (www.thedailybeast.com)

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Democrats call on DOJ to investigate tax sites for sharing financial information with Meta (www.theverge.com)

TaxSlayer, H&R Block, and TaxAct embedded Meta’s pixel onto their tax filing sites.

GOP House 'informant' indicted on allegations he was an agent for China (www.nbcnews.com)

Gal Luft, 57, was charged with acting as an unregistered agent for the Chinese government, trafficking weapons and lying to federal agents.

It has been a month since the Reddit blackout began... (kbin.social)

Happy Blackout Anniversary!

Kbin keeps logging me out, while I'm actively using the site - I go to make a comment or something and it doesn't work; logging back in automatically redirects me to the front page. (kbin.social)

This is really annoying. Does anyone else have this problem?

Disgraced sports doctor Larry Nassar stabbed multiple times at Florida federal prison, AP sources say (apnews.com)

Disgraced sports doctor Larry Nassar has been stabbed multiple times during an altercation with another inmate at a federal prison in Florida. Nassar is serving decades in prison after admitting sexually assaulting athletes at Michigan State University and at Indianapolis-based USA Gymnastics, including Olympic medalists.

People will put more effort in installing Windows on the Steam Deck than learning how to use Linux (kbin.social)

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Army of fake social media accounts defend UAE presidency of climate summit (www.theguardian.com)

An army of fake social media accounts on Twitter and the blogging site Medium have been promoting and defending the controversial hosting of a UN climate summit by the United Arab Emirates.

What game is too terrifying to finish for you? (kbin.social)

Mine is Silent Hill 3. Its subject matter revolves around the fears of a teenage girl, like death of a parent, puberty, unwanted pregnancy (with a demon fetus, no less), mirrors (THAT ROOM shivers), and stalkers. The atmosphere is so oppressive and I cant play the game without having something else playing in the background, its...

Robots say they won't steal jobs, rebel against humans (www.reuters.com)

Robots presented at an AI forum said on Friday they expected to increase in number and help solve global problems, and would not steal humans' jobs or rebel against us.

The Leader of the JFK-QAnon Cult Is Dead. His Followers Think It’s All Part of the Plan. (www.vice.com)

Members of Michael Protzman’s conspiracy cult abandoned their families and spent their life savings to follow him to Trump rallies around the country.

Twitter threatens to sue Meta over Threads (www.reuters.com)

Twitter has threatened to sue Meta Platforms over its new Threads platform, Semafor reported on Thursday, citing a letter sent to the Facebook parent's CEO Mark Zuckerberg by Twitter's lawyer Alex Spiro.

The cringiest presidential campaign ad video you will ever see, courtesy of Ron DeSantis (twitter.com)

Few days old so you may have already seen it but what the fuck is this lmfao

TIL that rapper Redman outed MTV Cribs as completely fake and revealed that MTV would routinely rent out mansions to make guests appear wealthier than they were. (hiphophero.com)

What does the red dotted line next to some top-level comments mean? (kbin.social)

I've noticed that some comments on threads will have a red, dotted line next to them, almost like it's the color coding for child comments, but it shows up occasionally on a top-level comment which has no parent comment. I've tried looking at the accounts where I see this, but I can't find any patterns for it yet, myself. Any...